Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier), author of Le Grand Meaulnes — now considered a French classic, died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27.
André Derain (June 10, 1880 – September 8, 1954)
"The substance of painting is light..."
La jetée à L’Estaque, 1906
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas, c. 1887
Rossetti’s Portraits | The Holburne Museum
September 24, 2021 - January 9, 2022
"Features some of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most iconic artworks, which reveal the artist at the height of his creative powers..."
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The Blue Silk Dress (Jane Morris), 1868
William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827
Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his work — especially his poetry — was largely ignored during his lifetime...
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Femme dans une robe rayée
Édouard Vuillard, 1895
L'Essayage
Maurice Denis, c. 1898
Both were members of the group of artists, Les Nabis, who played a vital role in extending the Impressionist project into the more personally expressive realms of Expressionism and Abstraction.
John Wyndham
#botd July 10, 1903
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past...”
― The Day of the Triffids